What did I do???

Vallan030 · 11-04-2008, 09:44 PM

Hello People :)
I'll try to be as brief as I can, with my question: I have been using a certain site to dl torrent movies, and was told it was slow and that I needed to open a certain port (I am very much pc illiterate). So I searched a bit to find out what that meant, and what to do about it. I know, a noob should NOT mess with things they don't TOTALLY understand

, but changing my IP address sounded so simple...but...after I did that, I could not remember my factory set IP. Now, I have a very poorly internet-able pc (many "Done but with error" webpages), and when I try to ipconfig/release and ipconfig/renew (both which the Telus recording tells you to do), I get the error message: Could not flush the DNS resolver cache: Function failed during execution. Should I just try to back up what I can on memory cards and restore to factory settings or what?

Please help!!!

**johnwill** · 11-05-2008, 03:07 PM

Please review the Tech Support Forum Rules & Conduct, and you'll see we provide no support for P2P applications here at TSF.

11-04-2008, 09:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Vallan030 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1 OS: WinXP SP3	What did I do??? Hello People :) I'll try to be as brief as I can, with my question: I have been using a certain site to dl torrent movies, and was told it was slow and that I needed to open a certain port (I am very much pc illiterate). So I searched a bit to find out what that meant, and what to do about it. I know, a noob should NOT mess with things they don't TOTALLY understand, but changing my IP address sounded so simple...but...after I did that, I could not remember my factory set IP. Now, I have a very poorly internet-able pc (many "Done but with error" webpages), and when I try to ipconfig/release and ipconfig/renew (both which the Telus recording tells you to do), I get the error message: Could not flush the DNS resolver cache: Function failed during execution. Should I just try to back up what I can on memory cards and restore to factory settings or what? Please help!!!

11-05-2008, 03:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
johnwill Manager, Networking Forums Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania, US Posts: 41,654 OS: Windows 7, XP-Pro, Vista, Linux Blog Entries: 1	Re: What did I do??? Please review the Tech Support Forum Rules & Conduct, and you'll see we provide no support for P2P applications here at TSF. __________________ If TSF has helped you, Tell us about it! or Donate to help keep the site up! Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience